>I'm not referring to danger to kids - danger to you. I knew a builder who used a stanley regularly, particularly for slashing open bags of cement or agregate. One day he was doing it as usual and casually ripped into the web between his thumb and index finger of the hand holding the . This prompted his Yorkshire colleague to quote his dad:
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>"Al'ays cut fro'thee - never tuhthee".

Ah that - I actually cut both ways, but always adjusting the force so that if it slips I can jump off or stop my hand in time. Having done two houses, the worst that happened to me is a splinter in my ankle, and a fingernail which I had to let regrow. And, ah, I had a paper cut last week.